Walter J. Burien, called the CAFRman, has long been
saying that there are literally billions hidden away in separate accounts
in state governmental entities from school districts to the state and
evey thing in between. CAFR is an acronym for Comprehensive Annual Financial
Reports. And, yes, I finally got a State of Oregon copy but the numbers
are so convoluted I don't think anyone knows for certain how much there
really is in it. http://www.cafrman.com/

When I first heard about these CAFRs, I contacted
my state rep and he'd never heard of them and this is probably the case
throughout the U.S. It's apparently the best guarded secret.

Oregon has an 8% unemployment rate - the highest
in the nation, I understand. So in order to scare our GOP controlled House
of Representatives where all revenue-raising bills must originate, our
Democrat treasurer is telling us that we are swimming in red ink -- in
the general budget but he carefully avoids mentioning the billions in
the CAFR.

The "watermellon" environmentalists have successfully
shut down great amounts of our past successful forest industry by using
the spotted owl and some creepy little crawlers they claim are going to
become extinct in the forests if we don't quit cutting down the trees
on federal land.

If one could see the map I have on my wall which
shows how much land the federal government owns in the Pacific Northwest,
people on the east coast would be shocked. But watch your national news.
Our forests are burning again this year in the Pacific Northwest due to
poor forest management.

ABC's 20/20 had a segment on July 25 about the problems
Park Rangers are experiencing on the federal lands and then a local follow
up on the July 26 news showed how the marijuana growers are using federal
lands to grow their crops with very sophisticated, booby trapped operations
with armed guards on duty.

After the environmental wackoes devastated our forest
industry, then they went after the salmon industry. A 2/27/1998 OREGONIAN
article said the U.S. was proposing a huge fish-rescue effort and Oregon
was to serve as model. In an A-P article dated 3/4/2000 it told of a man
who was elk hunting in the Coast Range and he came upon technicians at
the Fall Creek hatchery bashing coho salmon in the head with baseball
bats and stripping their blood-red eggs into 5-gallon buckets. He returned
with his video camera and made sure it got widely distrtibuted. All this
to prove we had a salmon shortage. And then on 8/29/2001 an article reported
Oregon suddenly had a "Salmon surge" and researchers attributed it to
the weather.

Many big shots in our government began relying on
tourism revenues but when the economy is pretty much in the toilet all
over the U.S. people are watching what they spend and many are taking
their vacations close to home. Now the fools are courting Hollywood to
come to Oregon to make films to help boost our sick economy.

Many Oregon towns that used to thrive from the forest
and salmon industries have become ghost towns. Workers were encouraged
to move into the city to retrain perhaps in the dot.com field and when
the bottom fell out of that, the state's revenues began to dry up and
now our elected officials are on the horns of a dilemma.

The S-J article says negative cash flows and constant
borrowing are becoming standard operating procedures for the state because
of rising demands on the general fund and falling revenue and so we get
another day older and deeper in debt. The tax and spend liberals never
put anything away for a rainy day or is that the CAFRs? "Let the good
times roll" was their mantra. Couple this with the mounting federal deficit
where all our personal real estate is being used as collateral to the
international bankers who loan the U.S. money and charge us interest on
these hot air loans and we are in deep do-do, folks!

Ironically, the day before the S-J article about
Oregon being broke, someone sent me an article with headlines: Deficit-Wracked
Maryland Calls it Quits. The article certainly did look authentic but
figuring it might be some type of a cruel hoax, a few calls to residents
in that state indicated they knew nothing about it.

There is an old staying, when in Rome, do as the
Romans do; however, one historian has concluded there were five reasons
for the decline and fall of Rome and we may very well be seeing the U.S.
falling into the same trap:

(1) The undermining of the dignity and sanctity
of the home, which is the basis of human society (2) Higher and higher taxes; the spending of public money for free
bread and circuses for the populace. (3) The mad craze for pleasure;
sports becoming every year more exciting, more brutal, more immoral. (The
most recent sport near Las Vegas is businessmen paying $5,000 to shoot
naked "Bambis" with paintballs as they run through the forest. If these
naked women get hit, they only earn $1,000. If they avoid getting hit,
they earn $2,500) (4) The building of great armaments when the great enemy was within;
the decay of individual responsibility (5) The decay of religion, fading into mere form, losing touch
with life, losing power to guide the people.

If you'll take the time to read the minor prophet
Zephaniah in the Bible about the Judgment of Judah and Jerusalem, his
message carries out this scriptural principle of human government. Dr.
J. Vernon McGee says old Zeph puts his finger right down on the sore spot
in the southern kingdom of Judah -- IDOLATRY.

McGee says the people were now on the toboggan;
they were on the way down and out and judgment was coming. Idolatry is
where every great nation has gone off the track. When a nation departs
from the living and true God or when it gives up great moral principles
which were based on religion, when it goes into idolatry, these factors
eventually lead it into gross immorality and into political anarchy said
McGee.

And then when I see the Communist Goals as set forth
in the January 10, 1963 Congressional Record (Appendix, pp. A34-A35),
it becomes even more frightening. While there are 45, I will only mention
those that I believe have caused the chaos and the resulting financial
crisis for the federal government as well as the states.

-Permit free trade
between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless
of whether or not items could be used for war -Extension of long-term loans to Russian
and Soviet satellites - Provide American aid to all nations regardless
of Communist domination. - Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist
Party
- Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S
- Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American
institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights - Get control of the schools. Use them as
transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften
the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line
in textbooks - Gain control of all student
newspapers - Use student riots to foment public protests
against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack - Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review
assignments, editorial writing, policy making positions - Gain
control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures - Continue discrediting American culture
by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell
was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute
shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." - Control art critics and directors of art
museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
- Eliminate all laws governing obscenity
by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech
- Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography
and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV - Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity
as "normal, natural, healthy." .Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed
religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the
need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
- Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious
expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle
of "separation of church and state." - Discredit the American Constitution by
calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a
hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis - Discredit the American Founding Fathers.
Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common
man." - Belittle all forms of American culture...
- Support any socialist movement to give
centralized control over any part of the culture -- education, social
agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. - Discredit and eventually dismantle the
FBI
- Infiltrate and gain control of more unions - Infiltrate and gain control of big business
- Transfer some of the powers of arrest from
the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric
disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand (or treat) --
shades of Nazi Germany. - Dominate the psychiatric profession and
use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those
who oppose Communist goals. - Discredit the family as an institution.
Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce. - Emphasize the need to raise children away
from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks
and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents - Create the impression that violence and
insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition...

Have we arrived? Like O'Reilly on FOX News would
say "I'll give you the last word."

Betty is a former Oregon Republican Party activist
having served as state party secretary, county chairman, 5th congressional
vice chairman and then elected chairman, and a precinct worker for many
years. Betty is a researcher, freelance journalist and a regular contributer
to http://www,NewsWithViews.com.
E-Mail: bettyfreauf@webtv.com

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